Rosalind Nashashibi is a painter and filmmaker of Palestinian / Northern Irish heritage based in London. Her practice depicts moments of collective intimacy as well as fragments of contemporary life through the lens of history. For Nashashibi, painting is a communication of the lived experience. It is a means of bringing thoughts to the surface that resist articulation, in a way that assumes intimacy with the viewer. Her concurrent 16mm filmmaking practice similarly observes intimate circumstances and settings in which social or mythological meaning takes shape.
Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973, London, UK) received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK), after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK), where she received her MFA. As part of her Master’s degree, Nashashibi participated in a three-month exchange program at CalArts, CA (US), in 1999. In 2020, Nashashibi became artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK). She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale (IT). Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, Sharjah 10, and Gothenburg Biennial. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003.
Nashashibi has had solo shows at Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES); KM21, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); ARCH, Athens (GR); Melas Martinos, Athens (GR); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR); Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT); Vienna Secession, Vienna (AT); Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (NL); The High Line, New York, NY (US); The Art Institute of Chicago, IL (US); Imperial War Museum, London (UK); and ICA, London (UK).
Nashashibi has participated in group exhibitions at Z33, Hasselt (BE); CCA Wattis, San Francisco, CA (US); Den Frie, Copenhagen (DK); CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR); Centre Georges Pompidou and Forum des Images, Paris (FR); Tate, London (UK); Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX); Whitechapel, London (UK); Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US).